United States – May 28
Rockefellers seek change at Exxon
Rare peek inside our Fort Knox of black gold
Senators question top oil execs (video)
Utah climate report adds more gloom
Midwest’s message: Hands off our lakes
Staff
Biofuels – May 28
Brazil: Ethanol vs biodiversity
Despite doubts, Brazil pins hopes on sustainable sugarcane ethanol
Report: Effects of ethanol on Texas food and feed
Transport – May 28
Soaring fuel costs whittle away at Asia’s cheap-labour advantage
Fuel takes a withering toll on truckers
Bad news for Detroit: Miles per gallon
Auto industry feels the pain of tight credit
Ripples – May 28
Fuel-price protests spread across Europe
Lorry drivers converge on London in fuel protest
High oil prices will hurt trade
U.S. small business crunched by fuel prices
Australia: Waking from the dream
Tilting at windmills and energy literacy
We are now being bombarded with ludicrous suggestions about how to get out of a crisis brought about by a gradual peak & decline of world oil production, a trend which has been evident for three long years now.
Coal in the United States
Coal currently looks like a solution to many of America’s fast-growing energy problems. However, this is a solution that, if applied on a broad scale, seems certain only to exacerbate the nation’s energy dilemma in the long run, as well as contributing to an impending global climate catastrophe. (Excerpts)
Why decline matters
If the end of industrial society proves to be a slow decline rather than a sudden catastrophe, we stand to lose more of today’s cultural heritage and knowledge base, not less. What can be done in the face of so challenging a future?
Peak food and peak water
The pace quickens. The signs are more numerous. We need even more than food security; we need food sovereignty. Who controls your food? Growing at least part of one’s own food–and having something to trade–will be essential to survival.
Prices & supplies – May 27
Japan blames speculators for oil hike
Saudi Aramco to spend $129 billion from 2009 to 2014
Asking Opec to solve the oil crisis misses the burning point
IEA says optimistic to think oil price will fall much
Peak oil (2) – May 27
Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price “head fake”?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?
Food & agriculture – May 27
For Texas farmers, production costs are spiraling along with crop prices
Lofty prices for fertilizer put farmers in a squeeze
Energy giants smell windfall from sulphur
Solutions – May 27
It’s the meat-eating, stupid
Sowing the seeds of a global revolution (guerilla gardenering)
Sustainable communities (otherwise – “dead doors that lead to nowhere”)
Transition Town sprouts in Peterborough, Ontario
